
I offered to meet up with Jason, and knowing my predilection for science and trivia, he invited Scott, their procurement manager. Since I was already planning on heading to Florida, Vero Beach wasn’t too much out of my way (what’s an extra hour when you’ve driven 2 days, and there’s grapefruit and fresh-squeezed orange juice at the end of the line?). Being offered a chance to work for white grapefruit (no less by doing the things I love best, which is talking in loving science gibberish on social media) was icing on the cake! Just that they read my post totally made my day. A short week later, they were in touch with me. It turns out that Hale Groves was reading. When I posted about my failed grapefruit jelly experiment back in February, I made a joking comment about how difficult the white grapefruit that I love so much is so hard to find and said, “if anyone from Hale Groves is reading this… HMO, yo.
